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Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 2015 08:42:50 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/tsc, input/joystick/analog:
  Switch from rdtscl() to native_read_tsc()

Commit-ID:  016bfc449a88c833e949414a41748b359843dbb1
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/016bfc449a88c833e949414a41748b359843dbb1
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:44:04 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:23:28 +0200

x86/asm/tsc, input/joystick/analog: Switch from rdtscl() to native_read_tsc()

This timing code is hideous, and this doesn't help.  It gets rid
of one of the last users of rdtscl(), though.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/90d19b3cea0e05ca6f333d1598daa38afb993260.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/input/joystick/analog.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c b/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
index 4284080..f871b4f 100644
--- a/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
+++ b/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ struct analog_port {
 
 #include <linux/i8253.h>
 
-#define GET_TIME(x)	do { if (cpu_has_tsc) rdtscl(x); else x = get_time_pit(); } while (0)
+#define GET_TIME(x)	do { if (cpu_has_tsc) x = (unsigned int)native_read_tsc(); else x = get_time_pit(); } while (0)
 #define DELTA(x,y)	(cpu_has_tsc ? ((y) - (x)) : ((x) - (y) + ((x) < (y) ? PIT_TICK_RATE / HZ : 0)))
 #define TIME_NAME	(cpu_has_tsc?"TSC":"PIT")
 static unsigned int get_time_pit(void)
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static unsigned int get_time_pit(void)
         return count;
 }
 #elif defined(__x86_64__)
-#define GET_TIME(x)	rdtscl(x)
+#define GET_TIME(x)	do { x = (unsigned int)native_read_tsc(); } while (0)
 #define DELTA(x,y)	((y)-(x))
 #define TIME_NAME	"TSC"
 #elif defined(__alpha__) || defined(CONFIG_MN10300) || defined(CONFIG_ARM) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64) || defined(CONFIG_TILE)
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